Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants—Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Holger Meins—are brought before the judge and accused of the murder of four US servicemen in a terrorist bombing attack. After a hunger strike at the trial’s start, Meins dies. The next to die is Meinhof, an apparent suicide. As the trial stretches on, Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe continuously disrupt the proceedings with accusations that they are being purposely undernourished and spied upon.